"Well, He Xiaoxi, it should be her. This face looks a lot younger and has some wrinkles, but the face shape is very similar. She is a sophomore at Meisheng High School next door. She went out to attend a cram school on the weekend and happened to pass by Huaxia University, and then disappeared on the way. Look, there is a section of surveillance video here. She really went into that convenience store. She must have traveled through time together when she was buying breakfast."
"He Xiaoxi, He Xiaoxi, the pronunciation is exactly the same. It turns out that she vaguely remembers her own name." Xiao Chen said with a sigh, "It's just that the little bamboo under the sunshine has become a small stream. The student who was only a sophomore at that time actually traveled through time and became a god."
Luo Ling said: "I really don't know what happened in the era they traveled through."
Xiao Chen typed the word "convenience store" into the search bar on the website and said, "Since the biographies always involve disappearances, let's see who else disappeared in convenience stores."
There weren't many search results. In addition to He Xiaoxi, there were six in total. Luo Ling leaned over to Xiao Chen and watched:
"The manager of the convenience store, Ma Deguang, is a 28-year-old male who looks a bit thin."
"The clerk at the convenience store, Wang Ke, female, 21 years old, a pretty innocent girl."
"A sophomore student at Pinghai University, Miao Jun? And a student from another school? He looks like a handsome boy."
"Ding Lintao, a fifth-year clinical medicine student at Huaxia University School of Medicine, male, 23 years old. He looks a bit gloomy."
"Zhang Ming, a programmer working in a nearby office building, is a male, 25 years old. He is also an alumnus of Huaxia University. He has worked in an entrepreneurial Internet company for three years and looks ordinary."
Xiao Chen asked, "Why do you have to evaluate the appearance every time you look at a file?"
Luo Ling asked: "When you saw Wang Ke's appearance, didn't you have a similar thought in your mind? Give him a score?"
"Of course not. I'm not that bored." Xiao Chen said with a firm face.
"Oh."
Xiao Chen slid the screen to the bottom and said in surprise, "Hey, there's actually a foreigner here, Agordo Ocampo, a Spanish student who is a junior in the Chinese Department, male, 23 years old."
"Spanish!" Luo Ling patted Xiao Chen's shoulder and said, "It seems that we have discovered something very interesting. How do you think the world that was originally dominated by Chinese has gradually become dominated by Spanish over time?"
Xiao Chen said: "Maybe because all the gods who spoke Chinese died, the last remaining god spoke Spanish."
Luo Ling nodded and said, "I guess so too. What the superiors like, the subordinates will like even more. In this way, it will influence the priests of the Temple of Nature from the divine world, and then influence the nobles and common people, and the culture and customs will slowly evolve into another form."
Xiao Chen said: "That's right. Now we can understand why the Spanish here contains so many modern Spanish words."
Luo Ling said: "However, for some reason, the magic runes that control the entire world are still tied to Chinese. The so-called magic runes are still in Chinese. This makes it impossible for this world to completely get rid of the influence of Chinese."
"Maybe it has something to do with the number of gods born at the beginning. I estimate that most of the gods at that time were Chinese. If they decided to build a simple system for using magic, they would definitely use Chinese. But when other gods fell, the God of Nature probably couldn't change this on his own, or even if he could change it, it would cost a lot. So this Chinese-based system has continued like this." Xiao Chen guessed.
"Not only that, there must have been many important formations in the world at that time that were made based on magic words. Even many formations inside the Temple of Nature were like this. If the magic power and magic system of the entire world were separated, it would definitely be a catastrophe that would cause the collapse of civilization. Imagine, those giant buildings maintained by magic power, the legendary flying city in the sky, and many temples and magic towers supported by formations, all of which were destroyed in an instant. This is something that the God of Nature doesn't want to see, right?" Luo Ling analyzed, "And whether it's the priests or the mages, they have also learned this system since childhood. If there is no direct means of casting spells like the Source Tower, and they are stripped of the ability to use magic words, then these strong men will almost become useless in an instant. Many of them are actually the followers or subordinates of the God of Nature, and they have been fighting with the believers of the ancient gods. If these people lose their fighting power, the God of Nature will not be able to rule the world and wipe out the believers of the ancient gods."
"That makes sense. So, it's very likely that the God of Nature is this Agordo Ocampo." Xiao Chen became more and more excited as he spoke. "Then how many of these people do you think have become gods?"
Luo Ling said: "According to the documents we have collected, there are five known ancient gods: the God of Nature, the God of Time, the God of War, the God of Wisdom, and the God of Death. According to He Xiaoxi's memory, only these few are the upper gods who truly possess the strongest power. The other gods are mostly demigods who were later selected from the strong humans and given power and status, or powerful descendants of gods. These people can only be said to be assistants or subordinates of the gods, just like the Valkyries under the God of War, or the Elf Queen in the family of the God of Nature. Although they can also pose a certain threat to the gods, they are much worse in terms of absolute power. I guess only the five upper gods had some kind of adventure in the first time they traveled through time and space and became the travelers of the gods."
“But there are seven of us here.”
"That's not surprising. You can't guarantee that the convenience store was traveled through together." Luo Ling said, "The cashier counter and the shelves for selecting goods in that convenience store are separated. Maybe the people queuing to check out traveled through time together with the store clerk, but the scattered people who were selecting goods were separated from them."
"It's possible." Xiao Chen agreed, "However, the identities of the other people are not that important now. The most important thing is to determine the origins of the two gods that still exist. We will now copy this information to the meditation world, and then find He Xiaoxi there and ask her to identify it. Maybe she will remember something."
Luo Ling took her phone and turned back to He Xiaoxi's page, which recorded his family's contact information. She said, "Speaking of this, I have an idea." (To be continued)